The Parrot. with a Compendium of the Times. by the Authors of the Female Spectator. Volume 1 of 9 by Multiple Contributors (Paperback, 2010) for sale online

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library P002661 'Authors of the Female spectator' = Eliza Haywood, possibly with other contributors to that publication. Title and imprint from collective title page; individual numbers lack title pages and imprints. Numbers 1-5 and 9 issued with separately titled section: 'A Compendium of the times'. With title page vignette and ornamental headpieces above caption titles. Unpaginated; signatures continuous in The Parrot: A{4}-P{4}; 'A Compendium' no. 1-5 signed separately and irregularly; the last number of 'A Compendium' signed: A{4}. Essays on conduct and morals, presented as anecdotes and letters from imaginary correspondents. The attached 'Compendium' gives a gossipy and personalized account of current events in Europe, with the last one describing the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart from Scotlan and the arrest and trial of principal actors in the rebellion of 1745. London [England]: printed and published by T. Gardner, at Cowley's-Head, opposite St. Clement's-Church in the Strand, M, DCC, XLVI. [1746]. 9 v.; 8